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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






2. What are healthy sources of fats?






3. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






4. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






5. What is normal albumin levels?






6. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






7. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






8. Where can you get more vitamin D?






9. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






10. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






11. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






12. Name six sources of grains






13. What foods have high quality protein?






14. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






15. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






16. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






17. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






18. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






19. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






20. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






21. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






22. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






23. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






24. What function is vitamin D?






25. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






26. What is the function of vitamin E?






27. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






28. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






29. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






30. When does BMR increase?






31. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






32. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






33. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






34. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






35. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






36. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






37. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






38. What is normal BMI?






39. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






40. What is RDA of protein?






41. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






42. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






43. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






44. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






45. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






46. How many calories/gram is protein?






47. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






48. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






49. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






50. The higher the BMR a client has --